Transport / January 2012
February 2012 | December 2011-
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Extra capacity on Wairarapa Services this Saturday
- Tranz Metro
- There will be extra capacity on the Wairarapa Services which will run to the regular Saturday timetable on Saturday 4 February 2012 due to the Martinborough Fair.
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It doesn’t want to pay for our cycleway, but it does want us to ride our bikes
- Wellington Scoop
- Is this hypocrisy? The NZ Transport Agency refuses to provide money to build a cycleway on the edge of the harbour from Petone to Wellington. But the Agency says that more of us should be riding our bikes and leaving our cars at home.
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Petone, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New Wellington Event Ticket
- Tranz Metro
- In time for the Sevens on 3 February 2012, there is a new convenient Wellington Event ticket which replaces the Stadium Connection ticket at the same price.
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Travel on the Johnsonville Line?
- Tranz Metro
- We are experiencing mechanical issues with the English Electric trains which are causing subsequent disruptions on the Johnsonville line.
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In praise of Wellington’s spy car
- Wellington Scoop
- Kiwis are terrible drivers. Over the holidays, the news has been full of the consequences of our bad driving habits as the dead and maimed piled up across the country. Largely these victims were the consequences of basic driving errors – speeding, badly-judged overtaking moves, hit-and-run crashes, drinking and driving, and failing to put on a seat belt. We kill ourselves on the road at more than twice the rate of the UK and rank as one of the worst performers for road deaths in the OECD. And we’re no better around Wellington’s narrow streets, which is why the much-maligned “spy car” is such an essential tool. In the Wellington region, road deaths and injuries rose 10% last year, bucking the national trend.
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Upgrade work at Kenepuru Station completed
- Tranz Metro
- Essential repairs and reconstruction at Kenepuru Station on the Kapiti Line have been completed, with the station reopen on Tuesday 24 January 2012.
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Book review on Human Transit
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- I’ve written a guest post on the Auckland Transport Blog. It’s a book review of Jarrett Walker’s Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives. To read the review you’re going to have to click here. I’ve written 2 other book reviews on Wellington Regional Cycleways before: Pedaling Revolutions, and Build Your Own Electric Bicycle
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Parallel freeway system proposed for Melbourne
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Australian cricketer Shane Warne has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons – he was impatient when his new model Mercedes couldn’t get past a cyclist so he tried to pass anyway clipping the cyclists back wheel and breaking the poor guy’s bike.
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City Barriers
- Architectural Centre Inc
- Timber posts with nautical rope strung between them are being proposed for segments of the Manners Mall in Wellington, in an effort to stop people crossing the road ‘illegally’. The proposal is by a WCC Councilor, Leonie Gill, who appears shocked and horrified that Wellingtonians have such a care-free attitude to crossing the road.
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When buses are replacing trains - where do I catch the bus?
- Tranz Metro
- When buses replace trains on the Wellington rail network, the following locations are where buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers.
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